Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

'A Seagull's Hymn'
Electric guitar - Felix-Florian Tödtloff
Drums – Will Ballantyne
Bass – KIM KHAN
Chains & vocals – Ican Harem

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

TRANCE BAND - A Seagull's Hymn

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Martyyna - Written In The Scars
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM113
Format: Digital
Release Date: June 7th, 2024

Official Video for 'This Time' https://youtu.be/F-WjTXXjOjo

Martyyna’s debut album Written In The Scars is an ironic play on the cliché that our destiny is written in the stars. More likely, our life’s stories are influenced by the scars we carry within us and by our coming to terms with them. Martyyna looks for such confidence on the single This Time, where a reverberating clock chime intertwines with her hazy vocals submerged in sampled water droplets, owl calls, or birdsong. Emerging at times only to repeat a hopeful wish: “This time... don’t make me cry.” A music video for the track, shot in the Canary Islands’ desolate and burned-out land, serves as an inspiration for the album's visual design and the future AV set with Igor Lorok presented at the Lunchmeat Festival in September 2023. The album cover views the body as a similar landscape, recording the imprints and bruises of past happenings and absorbing them into itself. The story of finding the strength to keep going continues on the second single, Distorted, inspired by data loss after Martyyna’s first live-set. Past feelings of anger and misery melt into a complex and stuttering production, her deepened vocals intertwine with jittering synth arrangements, slowly rising in pitch and gaining courage. Distant, muffled echoes are trying to break free, regressed traumas are coming to the surface, demanding attention.

After a process of healing, overcoming and getting lost in a dream, the voice of Martyyna fuses with that of the Czech producer Oliver Torr on Sunshine Girls and with the musician Portento’s on the closing track Invitation. The album ends with light, calming duets – two voices finding harmony at last, extending a euphoric invitation. An invitation to breathe in. To rest. To finally not be scared of one’s own self.

On Written In The Scars, Martyyna delves deeper into her work with vocals, first introduced on her EP AWAKEN, and perfects her layering of textures, tonal shifts, gradation of rhythms and deconstruction of string instruments. Rather than awaking, however, she’s now plunging into more atmospheric dreamscapes. Crafted with both chaos and care, Martyyna’s tracks are made of diverse building blocks reflecting her mood shifts and despairs as well as her meticulous craftswomanship gained working as an architect. Only here, forming physical structures in her waking life is interchanged with sonic worldbuilding of her dreams.

Written In The Scars

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Martyyna - This Time (IM113)

Listen to "Part 1" by Amarhac taken from "Asplenium" out on 24th April via Nodo

Pre-order: https://nodolabel.bandcamp.com/album/asplenium

Amarhac is an audiovisual artist from Mar del Plata, Argentina. In his productions, futuristic soundscapes are explored through synthetic and digital sounds. He also incorporates digital art and 3D animations to visually enhance the sound scenes.

Asplenium, his 2nd release on the label, moves through different ecosystems within a unified narrative. It is divided into parts, but the aim is to provide a single, uninterrupted listening experience without cuts. The EP incorporates IDM, broken rhythms, deconstructed and ambient tones, all layered under a highly defined palette of textures and sound design. It will be available as a digital download via nodolabel.bandcamp.com

Links:
Amarhac
https://soundcloud.com/amarhac
https://www.instagram.com/amarhac___
https://amarhac.bandcamp.com
Nodo
https://soundcloud.com/nodolabel
https://www.instagram.com/nodolabel
https://nodolabel.bandcamp.com

Asplenium

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[Premiere] Amarhac - Part 1 (Nodo)

Following the events of "Annihilation" and "Irrational Fear", xato presents the third part of his personal odyssey, "Stories with no fairy tales".

"Stories with no fairy tales" explores the dark self, with intense drone recordings, aggressive drum sounds and deep bass being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deeply evolving textures.

As the project's tracks aged between 2019 and 2021, it never felt like the right time to release the project. However things changed when the reasons behind the tracks were revamped in the more recent years.

Artwork by v.3lo
Written by Ben Clarke & Ioannis Nafpliotis
Mixed & mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

KLAHRK & xato - Pang of guilt

ambient set for shell.tech march 2024 <3
@twoshell

SHELL.TECH - M?Y?A

Taken from SBKT064: sideproject - sourcepond
Release date: 30th May 2024

Following up from work on Björk´s 'Fossora', Icelandic trio 'sideproject' debut on SVBKVLT with their new full-length album 'sourcepond'. Taking influence from the fog-covered wetlands of their native island, sideproject transfigure influences from the low-end frequencies of grime and bass music, and reshape it into a haze of transient-smeared beats accompanied by breathy synths that grow ever wetter till they slip beneath the surface tensions of their harmonic stratum. Compared to previous output, 'sourcepond' opts for a more concise approach to their music, stacking up their influences of experimental electronic, Icelandic punk and contemporary club music, and builds a sound that oscillates between melodic hooks and experimental rhythms. Each track carves through the sensuous material, pulling the listener into the dank sourcepond as though magnetic forces were guiding a bird's beak towards misty horizons.

Artwork by sideproject
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

sourcepond

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sideproject - weight

[ 𝙎𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙀 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙄𝙀𝙍𝙀 ] >> (@klahrk) debut EP on @all-centre-504822953

@WARECOLLECTIVE is one of our favorite experimental music labels. For us, it represents one of the most innovative and forward-thinking club music on SoundCloud. We tried to connect with the label in the past but were somehow unsuccessful. 

Now it has changed. With the new EP by WARE's founder @KLAHRK on another brilliant British label @all-centre-504822953, we give you an interview with the label boss, talented producer and DJ. 

On the "Z2" EP, the London-based artist delivers four atmospheric slow-fast club cuts, exploring the lowest depths of the sonic frequency spectrum.

Read more here: https://swinedaily.com/premiere-interview-klahrk/

[ You can follow ]
All Centre: https://www.instagram.com/all_centre/
Klahrk: https://www.instagram.com/klahrk/?img_index=1

[Swine Premiere] Klahrk - Interference (All Centre)

@tu_music
@ancestralvision
@overmybodytw

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Capiuz returns on the label with a new club-ready album that slashes through a nocturnal forest landscape with fluorescents and violent bursts of color. Taking its name from a series of paintings called “Bande di Fiori Notturni” by Italian artist Alice Visentin, the project goes through a wide array of influences and bpms. Terra Nuda (naked earth) acts as an opener fusing a foggy drone with drum breaks and dance hall syncopations. Hectic follows up with a more bass oriented attitude incarnated in a heavy pounding kick pattern and driven by metallic drums with a restless spirit. The sounds and textures of Fiori Notturni are heavily inspired by the works of John Cage and his use of percussive instruments for both rhythmic and textural purposes. These influences become pretty clear in slower cuts like Black Needle and the title track, where jingles, rattles and other high-pitched instruments create a moving bed for the rhythmic section. Other works such as 0400 and the collaboration with label head B E N N, Lunar Eclipse, bring a faster pace to the project with a higher focus on rhythmic layering. Before giving its way to the Ancestral Vision remix, the “night” is closed off by Hallucinogen, a longer track driven by a steady kick that plays with different odd timed patterns to create an exciting and enveloping trip.

Capiuz is the experimental dance project of producer and performer Luca Favaro. Based in Italy, his genre-merging production focuses on exploring rhythm and sound design in a club context. Often leaning towards live performances, Capiuz’s music takes the form of a heavy hitting outburst filled with heavy bass, breakcore progressions and granular textures. He is currently the host of a show on Radio Raheem and has published with Unizone, Over My Body and Early Reflex. As a programmer he’s developing max for live devices with HIDE Productions, including granular audio effects and instruments and flexible percussive synths.

Jan Macháček aka Ancestral Vision is a Prague-based producer, sound artist, DJ and co-founder of Unizone label and radio show. His productions are full of experimental sound design that fills the gaps between earworm-ish melodies and contemporary club echoes. Compositions written by Ancestral Vision are often both epic and intimate, serving as a personal diary of his sound research practice and studio jams.

PREMIERE: Capiuz - 0400 (Ancestral Vision Remix) (OverMyBody)

✱ SWINE PREMIERE ✱ Capiuz (@tu_music) - "Terra Nuda" via Taipei-based label @overmybodytw

◆ Capiuz returns on the label with a new club-ready album that slashes through a nocturnal forest landscape with fluorescents and violent bursts of color. Taking its name from a series of paintings called “Bande di Fiori Notturni” by Italian artist Alice Visentin, the project goes through a wide array of influences and bpms. Terra Nuda (naked earth) acts as an opener fusing a foggy drone with drum breaks and dance hall syncopations.

◆ Capiuz is the experimental dance project of producer and performer Luca Favaro. Based in Italy, his genre-merging production focuses on exploring rhythm and sound design in a club context. Often leaning towards live performances, Capiuz’s music takes the form of a heavy hitting outburst filled with heavy bass, breakcore progressions and granular textures.

Follow on Instagram:
✱ Capiuz / https://www.instagram.com/capiuzzz/
✱ Over My Body / https://www.instagram.com/overmybody.tw/

[Swine Premiere] Capiuz - Terra Nuda (Over My Body)

Welcoming Paigon Bard to TT with his 4-track EP “If This Be Not I”. A sonic summary of Paigon Bard’s ideas and feelings as an outsider from a small country now making his mark on the electronic scene in London. The project combines the innovative grooves of contemporary UK bass with the energy of the early 2000s big beat records that sparked his obsession with electronic music. The result is a playful interpretation of the UK electronic music landscape, capturing its weirdness and sexiness with an added Estonian twist.

https://tobagotracks.bandcamp.com/album/if-this-be-not-i

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